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Jay Russell
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Jay Russell, is a film director and executive producer and director of the film My Dog Skip. His other directing credits include Tuck Everlasting, Ladder 49, The Water Horse and he has also written and directed End of the Line. Russell served as a producer on Whole Lotta Sole and is producing the adaptation of the Cornell Woolrich thriller. Russell graduated from Columbia University in 1984 with a MFA in screenwriting and directing, having studied with producer Michael Hausman and his first film, End of the Line, was a Sundance Institute project and was released by Orion Classics. He has since written projects for Imagine Entertainment and TriStar Pictures and has directed documentaries for PBS, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, CBS, Fox, USA Network
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Jay Russell
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Joaquin Phoenix
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Joaquín Rafael Phoenix, known formerly as Leaf Phoenix, is a Puerto Rican–born American actor, producer, music video director, musician and activist. For his work as an artist, Phoenix has received a Grammy Award, Phoenix started acting in television shows with his brother River Phoenix and sister Summer Phoenix. His first major release was in the comedy-drama film Parenthood. During his period as an actor he was credited as Leaf Phoenix. He received international attention for his portrayal of Commodus in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, to this date, he and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the first and only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards. Aside from his career, he has also ventured into directing music videos, as well as producing films. He has recorded an album, the soundtrack to Walk The Line, Phoenix is a social activist, lending his support to a number of charities and humanitarian organizations. He is also known for his animal rights advocacy. He has been a vegan since the age of three, and actively campaigns for PETA and In Defense of Animals, Phoenix was born Joaquín Rafael Bottom in the Río Piedras district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to parents from the U. S. mainland. He is the third of five children, including River, Rain, Liberty and Summer and he also has a half-sister named Jodean from a previous relationship of his fathers. Phoenixs father, John Lee Bottom, originally from Fontana, California, was a lapsed Catholic, of English, Phoenixs mother, Arlyn, was born in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents whose families emigrated from Russia and Hungary. Arlyn left her family in 1968 and moved to California, later meeting Phoenixs father while hitchhiking and they married in 1969, then later joined a religious group, the Children of God, and began traveling throughout South America. His parents eventually became disenchanted with the Children of God, they made the decision to leave the group and they changed their last name to Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes, symbolizing a new beginning. Around this time, Joaquín began calling himself Leaf, desiring to have a name like his siblings. Leaf became the name he used as a actor, until at age 15. He first used it as a credit in his big comeback film To Die For. In order to provide food and financial support for the family, in Los Angeles, his mother started working as a secretary for NBC, and his father worked as a landscaper. He went on to himself as a child actor before deciding to withdraw from acting for a while and travel to Mexico
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Phoenix at the
New York Film Festival in 2014
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Phoenix in Cannes for
The Yards in May 2000.
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The cast of
Her at the
New York Film Festival in 2013.
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John Travolta
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John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, producer, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever, Travolta was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for performances in Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction. He won his only Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his performance in Get Shorty and has received a total of six nominations, in 2014, he received the IIFA Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema. Travolta, the youngest of six children, was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey and his father, Salvatore Travolta, was a semi-professional American football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia, was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a vocal group. His siblings, Joey, Ellen, Ann, Margaret, and his father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American, he grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture. He was raised Roman Catholic, but converted to Scientology in 1975, Travolta attended Dwight Morrow High School, but dropped out as a junior at age 17 in 1971. After attending Dwight Morrow High School, Travolta moved across the Hudson River to New York City and landed a role in the company of the musical Grease. Singing the Sherman Brothers song Dream Drummin and he then moved to Los Angeles to further his career in show business. Travoltas first California-filmed television role was as a victim in Emergency. In September 1972, but his first significant movie role was as Billy Nolan, around the same time, he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarino in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, in which his sister, Ellen, also occasionally appeared. Travolta had a hit single entitled Let Her In, peaking at ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July 1976. In the next few years, he appeared in two of his most noted screen roles, Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever and as Danny Zuko in Grease, the films were among the most commercially successful pictures of the decade and catapulted Travolta to international stardom. Saturday Night Fever earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, at age 24, Travolta became one of the youngest performers ever nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. His mother and his sister Ann appeared in roles in Saturday Night Fever. Travolta performed several of the songs on the Grease soundtrack album, in 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film, Urban Cowboy, in which he starred with Debra Winger. After Urban Cowboy, Travolta starred in a series of financial and critical failures that sidelined his acting career and these included Perfect, co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and Two of a Kind, a romantic comedy reteaming him with Olivia Newton-John. During that time he was offered, but turned down, lead roles in what would become box office hits, including American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman, both of which went to Richard Gere
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Travolta in 2013
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Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino in the ABC comedy Welcome Back Kotter, c. 1976
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Travolta in 1983
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Travolta in 1997
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Jacinda Barrett
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She appeared in the series The Following in 2013 and joined the main cast of the Netflix series Bloodline, which launched in 2015. Barrett appeared in the September 1998 issue of Maxim, in an article promoting the new television series. Her appearance served to promote her appearance in the NBC primetime soap opera Wind on Water, Barrett was previously engaged to TV host and comedian Chris Hardwick before her marriage to American actor Gabriel Macht in 2004. The couple had their first child, a girl named Satine Anais Geraldine Macht and they had a second child, a son named Luca, on February 26,2014. Barrett and Macht appeared together in the film Middle Men, and she had a role in the second season of Machts TV series, Suits. Barrett enjoys skydiving, explaining it gets scarier the more you do it, after a while, you realize youre flinging yourself out of a perfectly good plane for no apparent reason. On August 28,2009, Barrett was naturalized as a US citizen at the Los Angeles Convention Center, jacinda Barrett at the Internet Movie Database
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Barrett in March 2009
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Barrett at the premiere of Poseidon, 2006
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Morris Chestnut
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Morris Lamont Chestnut, Jr. is an American actor. He first came to attention for his role in the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood and he has appeared in numerous feature films and on television series, including the starring role of pathologist Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. in the Fox TV series Rosewood. Chestnut was born in Cerritos, California, the son of Morris Lamont Chestnut and he graduated from Richard Gahr High School in 1986, and subsequently studied finance and drama at California State University, Northridge. Chestnuts first professional acting role was as Jadon in Freddys Nightmares, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Series, season 2, episode 19 and his first feature film role was as Ricky Baker in Boyz n the Hood. He followed that up with roles in various TV movies, Chestnut also played a role on Patti LaBelles short-lived sitcom Out All Night. His career continued to rise steadily with co-starring roles in standard big-budget studio films such as Under Siege 2, Dark Territory, in 1998, he won the annual Madden Bowl video game competition. In 1999, Chestnut starred in The Best Man with Taye Diggs and Nia Long, the Best Man earned positive reviews from the press and did well at the box office. For his performance Chestnut earned an NAACP Image Award nomination and he again played a football player in The Game Plan. In 2001, he starred in The Brothers, a film centering on the themes of fidelity, in 2004, he appeared as a firefighter in Ladder 49. He has worked with Steven Seagal three times, in Under Siege 2, Dark Territory, Chestnut is Seagals reluctant partner. In both Half Past Dead and Prince of Pistols, he co-stars as the main villain, people magazine named Morris Chestnut as one of the Sexiest Men Alive for 2015. Chestnut is married to his wife Pam Byse Chestnut, the couple have two children – a son named Grant, and a daughter named Paige. Love In The Nick of Tyme What My Husband Doesnt Know Morris Chestnut at the Internet Movie Database Morris Chestnut at Yahoo
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Chestnut at the
San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2010
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Robert Patrick
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Robert Hammond Patrick, Jr. is an American actor, perhaps best known for his portrayals of villainous characters. He is a Saturn Award winner with four nominations, Patrick dropped out of college when drama class sparked his interest in acting, and entered film in 1986. He currently stars in the CBS drama series Scorpion as Agent Cabe Gallo and he was described by actor/director Jason Bateman as one of the great heavies. Patrick, the oldest of five siblings, was born in Marietta, Georgia, Patrick is of English and Scots-Irish ancestry. His siblings are Richard Patrick, Cheri, Karen and Lewis and he spent his early life in Bay Village, a small suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, while he moved around the country. Patrick did not start to pursue a career until his mid-twenties. During his childhood years, Patrick did not like to act, in third grade he refused to wear a pair of green tights required for Peter Pan. He graduated from Farmington High School in Farmington, Michigan, in 1977, Patrick was a track and field and football athlete at Bowling Green State University, although he dropped out before graduating when he found interest in Drama and acting. After leaving college, Patrick secured a position as a house painter and he swam for three hours in order to save the others still stranded on the accident site, nearly drowning in the attempt. After the accident, he moved from Ohio to Los Angeles, California and his main income during the first years was as a bartender, and he often lived in his car. Patrick was then picked up for small roles and cameos in low-budget films. Looking back, Patrick credited his early appearances in films to his tough-looking exterior, james Cameron, the films director, said he chose Patrick for the role because of his physical appearance, which he felt fit the role. During the filming of Terminator 2, Judgment Day, Patrick was broke, living in an apartment with his girlfriend, Barbara. He has credited the film with starting his career, after Terminator 2, Patrick landed roles in various feature films such as Last Action Hero, Fire in the Sky and Striptease. Because of his fondness for martial arts, Patrick starred in two martial arts films titled Double Dragon and Hong Kong 97, both released in 1994 and his performance in Fire in the Sky caught the attention of The X-Files creator, Chris Carter. After David Duchovny distanced himself from the show during the seventh season, patricks brother, Richard, had previously worked for the series by adding music for the soundtrack album The X-Files, The Album. Patrick was cast as Doggett in 2000, the X-Files was canceled two seasons later, after Duchovny left the show following season 7, which resulted in low ratings for the show. Patrick made several appearances on many magazines, with TV Guide going so far as to label him one of the Ten Sexiest Men of Sci-Fi
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Patrick at the 2014
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Patrick in December 2007
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Touchstone Pictures
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Touchstone Pictures is an American film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Previously, Touchstone operated as an film production banner of Walt Disney Studios. Touchstone Pictures merely serves as a brand, not a business operation. In 2009, Disney entered into a 5-year, 30-picture distribution deal with DreamWorks Pictures by which DreamWorks productions would be released through the Touchstone banner, Touchstone then distributed DreamWorks films from 2011 to 2016. Due to increased public assumption that Disney films were aimed at children and families, in late 1979, Disney Productions released The Black Hole, a science-fiction movie that was the studios first production to receive a PG rating. Over the next few years, Disney experimented with more PG-rated fare, tron was considered a potential Star Wars-level success film by the film division. A loss of $33 million was registered by the division in 1983 with the majority resulting from Something Wicked This Way Comes. Never Cry Wolf, a 1983 PG release that featured male nudity did well as the studio downplayed the films association with the Disney brand. Touchstone Films was started by then-Disney CEO Ron W. Miller on February 15,1984 as a label for their PG films with an expected 3 to 4 movies released under the label. Touchstones first film was Splash, a hit for grossing $68 million at the domestic box office was released that year. Incoming Disney CEO Michael Eisner and film chief Jeffrey Katzenberg considered renaming the label to Hollywood Pictures, following in 1986, Down and Out in Beverly Hills was another early success for Touchstone and is noted as Disneys first R-rated film. Allowing the momentum to increase with films with Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune, Tin Men. In April 1985, Touchstone Films were licensed to Showtime/The Movie Channel for five years starting in 1986, Touchstone Films was renamed Touchstone Pictures after the film Ruthless People in 1986. With the Touchstone movies, Disney moved to the top of box office receipts beating out all the major film studios by 1988. In April 1988, Touchstone became a unit of Walt Disney Pictures with newly appointed president Ricardo Mestres, on October 23,1990, The Walt Disney Company formed Touchwood Pacific Partners I to supplant the Silver Screen Partnership series as their movie studios primary funding source. Mestres was appointed president of Hollywood, in 2006, Disney limited Touchstones output to 2 or 3 films in favor of Walt Disney Pictures titles due to an increase in film industry costs. Two Touchstone co-productions flopped at the box office minimized by its co-producers financial contributions to the movies, Disney revived Touchstone in 2009 to serve as a distribution label for DreamWorks Studios films. DreamWorks was expected to allow Disney to release additional family fare that could be used at its parks and on its channels, Disney has been financing DreamWorks productions with an $90 million more available under its agreement if DreamWorks cannot get additional equity funding
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Touchstone Pictures
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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is an American film distributor owned by The Walt Disney Company. The division took on its current name in late 2007, which before that had been Buena Vista Pictures Distribution since 1987, before 1953, Walt Disneys productions were distributed by Columbia Pictures, United Artists and RKO Radio Pictures. The name Buena Vista came from the street in Burbank, California, Buena Vistas first release was the Academy Award–winning live-action feature The Living Desert on November 10,1953 along with Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, Buena Vistas first animated release. Notable subsequent releases include the film, Yang Kwei Fei, released in US theaters in September 1956, The Missouri Traveler in March 1958. In April 1960, the company dropped Film from its name, in 1961, Disney incorporated Buena Vista International, distributing its first PG rated film, Take Down, in January 1979. The low-budget movie was not produced by the Disney studios and was acquired from an independent studio, in July 1987, Buena Vista changed its name to Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. Late in the 1980s, Disney purchased a stake in one of Pacific Theatres chain leading to Disneys Buena Vista Theaters and Pacific to renovate the El Capitan Theatre. The Crest was finished first while El Capitan opened with the premiere of The Rocketeer film on June 19,1991, the corporation purchased a 12. 8% share in Cinergi with its initial public offering in 1994. Soon, BVPD signed a 25 picture distribution deal with Cinergi, the Gaumont Film Company and Walt Disney formed Gaumont Buena Vista International, their joint venture French distribution company, in 1993. In August 1996, Disney and Tokuma Shoten Publishing agreed that Disney would distribute internationally Studio Ghibli animated films, in September 1996, following Disneys acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. was merged into ABC, Inc. the parent company of that group. In July 1998, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution purchased the Hollywood Masonic Temple building to continue using it as a promotional venue, by 1997, BVPDs share in Cinergi dropped to 5%.4 million and other loans. In 2002, Disney signed a four animated film deal with Vanguard Animation, however, since 2004, BVI and Gaumont dissolved their French distribution joint venture, Gaumont Buena Vista International. Buena Vista International agreed to a deal with MegaStar Joint Venture Company Limited in April 2006 for the Vietnam market. In April 2007, Disney discontinued using the Buena Vista brand in its distribution branding, the distribution deal ended in 2016, after DreamWorks and Disney decided to not renew their agreement in December 2015, with Universal replacing Disney as DreamWorks distributor. By the end of the deal, Disney had distributed 14 of DreamWorks original 30-picture agreement, Disney took complete ownership of the DreamWorks II film library in exchange for loans made to that company. In addition, Disney is the first of three studios that have released at least two billion-dollar films in the same year. Furthermore, Disney is the studio that has achieved this four times, in 2010,2013,2015, and 2016—that latter year of which included four $1 billion releases. Four of the top five highest-grossing animated films have been released by Disney, in addition, four of the top-five opening weekends were Disney releases
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
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Baltimore City Fire Department
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The Baltimore City Fire Department provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the city of Baltimore, Maryland. The BCFD responds to approximately 235,000 emergency calls annually, baltimores early firefighting was performed by volunteers. The various companies engaged in rivalries, resulting in what a Baltimore mayor termed irregularities. For example, gangs operating out of firehouses participated in the Know-Nothing Riot of 1856, a municipal organization was established in 1859. The Great Baltimore Fire in 1904 burned for thirty hours straight and decimated a major part of central Baltimore, mutual aid companies from as far away as Washington D. C. Philadelphia and New York City were called in to assist, the fire led to uniform national standards in fire fighting equipment and protocols. As with other fires of the time, it was a predecessor to the stringent fire codes of today. The Baltimore City Fire Department responds from 31 fire stations located throughout the city and these companies are organized into 6 battalions, each under the command of a battalion chief. Each battalion chief reports to the on-duty shift commander, each BCFD frontline engine company and each frontline truck company is staffed by an officer and 3 firefighters per shift. Each engine company is staffed by a lieutenant or captain, a pump operator, each truck company is staffed by a lieutenant or captain, an emergency vehicle driver, and a firefighter each shift. The captain of a BCFD company is in command of that company. In a fire station more than one fire company, the senior captain of one of the two or more companies is the house captain, in command of the fire station that the two or more companies share. Each BCFD medic unit is staffed by two paramedics per shift, each battalion chiefs unit is operated by a battalion chief and his/her aide/driver. All responses are dispatched to units by the Fire Communications Bureau using pre-determined response profiles from the computer-aided dispatch system. Units can be special-called by any field unit once an incident is underway, however, Special units added for specialized/technical rescues, such as harbor, swift water, building collapse, trench collapse, confined space, high angle. The BCFD utilizes a variety of standardized and specialized apparatus to carry out its duties, engine - The engine company is the backbone of the fire suppression operation. Every BCFD engine is manufactured by Pierce, and has a 500-gallon water tank, most first line engine companies have a 1250GPM single stage pump. Basic hose line compliment is 1,200 of 4 Stortz supply hose,250 of 2.5 attack line,300 of 3 setback/standpipe hose,500 of 1.75 attack line, and 20 of hard suction hose
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Baltimore City Fire Department (BCFD)
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Engine Company 2, 800 Light Street (Taken October 2015)
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Canton, Baltimore
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Canton is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Cantons traditional center is ODonnell Square, a park bordered on the north and south by ODonnell Street, to the east by South Potomac Street, and to the west by Linwood Avenue. ODonnell Square is home to bars and restaurants, an art gallery, a coffee shop. Canton is considered one of Baltimore’s most popular neighborhoods and continues to see growth as more development opportunities come into the area, in 1785, Irish merchant John ODonnell settled in Baltimore and began trading with merchants in the Chinese port of Guangzhou, then called Canton by English speakers. When ODonnell purchased land, he named his plantation Canton, in the Late 18th century, ODonnells land was sold off by his son Columbus O’Donnell, William Patterson and Peter Cooper, and was developed for waterfront industry and blue-collar housing. During the early 19th century, European immigrants settled in the area, welsh immigrants, primarily workers from South Wales, began settling in Baltimore in large numbers beginning in the 1820s. Welsh and Irish migrant workers composed a portion of Baltimores working class during the early. In 1850, a community of copper workers from Wales settled in the neighborhood. These workers established a Presbyterian church in 1865, located on Toone Street in Canton, other groups included German and Poles. In the 2000s, as industry moved out, new housing and marinas have been developed along the waterfront, the first branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, in operation since 1866, is in Canton on O’Donnell Square. Most houses in Canton are turn-of-the-20th-century two- to three-story rowhouses, some homes closer to the water date from the Civil War. New townhouses have built at Canton Square and the Anchorage. There are also waterfront apartments and condominiums in rehabilitated industrial buildings, according to the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, the median price of homes sold in 2013 was $285,500. Based on data derived from the census of 2010 and 2014 ACS 5-year estimate, there were 11,398 people residing in the neighborhood. The racial makeup of Canton was 90. 8% White,3. 9% African American,0. 1% Native American,2. 3% Asian,1. 0% from other races, the median household income in 2013 was $79,114. The Canton Community Association Canton Historic District, Baltimore City, including photo from 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust Boundary Map of the Canton Historic District, Baltimore City
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Canton Historic District
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Enoch Pratt Free Library branch
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Baltimore
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Baltimore is the largest city in the U. S. state of Maryland, and the 29th-most populous city in the country. It was established by the Constitution of Maryland and is not part of any county, thus, it is the largest independent city in the United States, with a population of 621,849 as of 2015. As of 2010, the population of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area was 2.7 million, founded in 1729, Baltimore is the second largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic. Baltimores Inner Harbor was once the leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States. With hundreds of identified districts, Baltimore has been dubbed a city of neighborhoods, in the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner, later the American national anthem, in Baltimore. More than 65,000 properties, or roughly one in three buildings in the city, are listed on the National Register, more than any city in the nation. The city has 289 properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the historical records of the government of Baltimore are located at the Baltimore City Archives. The city is named after Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, of the Irish House of Lords, Baltimore Manor was the name of the estate in County Longford on which the Calvert family lived in Ireland. Baltimore is an anglicization of the Irish name Baile an Tí Mhóir, in 1608, Captain John Smith traveled 210 miles from Jamestown to the uppermost Chesapeake Bay, leading the first European expedition to the Patapsco River. The name Patapsco is derived from pota-psk-ut, which translates to backwater or tide covered with froth in Algonquian dialect, a quarter century after John Smiths voyage, English colonists began to settle in Maryland. The area constituting the modern City of Baltimore and its area was first settled by David Jones in 1661. He claimed the area today as Harbor East on the east bank of the Jones Falls stream. In the early 1600s, the immediate Baltimore vicinity was populated, if at all. The Baltimore area had been inhabited by Native Americans since at least the 10th millennium BC, one Paleo-Indian site and several Archaic period and Woodland period archaeological sites have been identified in Baltimore, including four from the Late Woodland period. During the Late Woodland period, the culture that is called the Potomac Creek complex resided in the area from Baltimore to the Rappahannock River in Virginia. It was located on the Bush River on land that in 1773 became part of Harford County, in 1674, the General Assembly passed An Act for erecting a Court-house and Prison in each County within this Province. The site of the house and jail for Baltimore County was evidently Old Baltimore near the Bush River. In 1683, the General Assembly passed An Act for Advancement of Trade to establish towns, ports, one of the towns established by the act in Baltimore County was on Bush River, on Town Land, near the Court-House
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Sixth Regiment fighting railroad strikers, July 20, 1877
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The
Battle Monument commemorates the
Battle of Baltimore.
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The
Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, looking west from
Pratt and
Gay streets
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Rowhouse
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They are also known in some areas as row houses or linked houses. Terrace housing can be throughout the world, though it is in abundance in Europe and Latin America. The Place des Vosges in Paris is one of the examples of the style. Sometimes associated with the class, historical and reproduction terraces have increasingly become part of the process of gentrification in certain inner-city areas. Yarmouth Rows in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk is an example where the building fronts uniformly ran right to the property line, Townhouses are generally two- to three-storey structures that share a wall with a neighbouring unit. As opposed to an apartment building, townhouses do not have neighbouring units above or below them and they are similar in concept to row houses or terraced houses, except they are usually divided into smaller groupings of homes. The first and last of these houses is called an end terrace, in Australia, the term terrace house refers almost exclusively to Victorian and Edwardian era terraces or replicas almost always found in the older, inner city areas of the major cities. Terraced housing was introduced to Australia from England in the century, basing their architecture on those in the UK, France. Large numbers of terraced houses were built in the suburbs of large Australian cities, particularly Sydney and Melbourne. Detached housing became the style of housing in Australia following Federation in 1901. The most common building material used was brick, often covered with cement render, many terraces were built in the Filigree style, a style distinguished through heavy use of cast iron ornament, particularly on the balconies and sometimes depicting native Australian flora. In the 1950s, many urban renewal programs were aimed at eradicating them entirely in favour of modern development, in recent decades these inner-city areas and their terraced houses have been gentrified. The suburbs in which houses are often found are often sought after in Australia due to their proximity to the CBD of the major cities. They are therefore sometimes quite expensive even though they are not the preferred accommodation style. The lack of windows on the side, the gardens. The lack of off-street parking that most have is also an issue for the majority Australians, terraced housing has long been a popular style in Paris, France. The Place des Vosges was one of the earliest examples of the style, in Parisian squares, central blocks were given discreet prominence, to relieve the façade. Terraced building including housing was used primarily during Haussmanns renovation of Paris between 1852 and 1870 creating whole streetscapes consisting of terraced rows
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The
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Paris, France, is one of the early examples of terraced housing, which became popular across Europe and North America, differing significantly from wealthier to working-class areas.
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Victorian/Edwardian terraced houses in
Loughborough, England.
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Terrace houses in
The Rocks, a historic district of Sydney
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Filigree architecture in
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Billy Burke (actor)
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William Albert Billy Burke is an American actor. He is known for his role as Charlie Swan in Twilight, in 2011, he played Cesaire in Red Riding Hood. In 2012, he was cast as the character, Miles Matheson. Burke was born in Bellingham, Washington and he is married to actress Pollyanna Rose, they have a daughter named Bluesy LaRue Burke. His motion picture credits include Jane Austens Mafia, along Came a Spider, Final Jeopardy, Flashpoint, Ladder 49, Forfeit, Fracture, and Three Days to Vegas. He appeared in Feast of Love, co-starring Selma Blair and Morgan Freeman, in 2008, Burke appeared in Twilight, based on the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer, playing the role of Charlie Swan. He also portrayed Bobbys brother, Jack, on the show My Boys, Burke reprised his role as Charlie Swan in the Twilight sequels, New Moon and Eclipse. It was released on February 25,2011, in July 2011, Burke appeared in the TNT drama series Rizzoli & Isles. In 2012, he was cast as the lead in the NBC science-fiction series Revolution, created by Eric Kripke, burkes characters in 24 and Revolution have the same last name. Burke reprised his role in The Closer and he appeared again in the series finale, The Last Word, in a face-off against the LAPD. He later reprised the role in the spin-off Major Crimes season three finale Special Master though his character has had an impact on the show from the beginning. Burke currently stars as veterinary pathologist Mitch Morgan in CBSs Zoo, official website Billy Burke at the Internet Movie Database Billy Burke at AllMovie
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Burke at
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Search and rescue
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Search and rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, International Search and Rescue Advisory Group is a UN organization that promotes the exchange of information between national urban search and rescue organizations. The duty to render assistance is covered by Article 98 of the UNCLOS, there are many different definitions of search and rescue, depending on the agency involved. Canadian Forces, Search and Rescue comprises the search for, and provision of aid to, persons, ships or other craft which are, or are feared to be, in distress or imminent danger. United States Coast Guard, The use of resources to assist persons or property in potential or actual distress. One of the worlds earliest well-documented SAR efforts ensued following the 1656 wreck of the Dutch merchant ship Vergulde Draeck off the west coast of Australia, survivors sought help, and in response three separate SAR missions were conducted, without success. All 5 crew members of an oil barge, which had run aground on Penfield Reef, were saved before the barge sank, in 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 with 269 occupants was shot down by a Soviet aircraft near Sakhalin. The Soviets sent SAR helicopters and boats to Soviet waters, while a search, South Korean, and Japanese ships and aircraft in international waters, but no survivors were found. In July 2009, Air France Flight 447 was lost in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, an international SAR effort was launched, to no avail. A third effort nearly two years later discovered the site and recovered the black boxes. In early 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed under mysterious circumstances, many nations contributed to the initial SAR effort, which was fruitless. 3mn to date on fuel and food in its own effort. The search for Flight 370 has become the largest SAR so far with the largest budget, mountain rescue relates to search and rescue operations specifically in rugged and mountainous terrain. Ground search and rescue is the search for persons who are lost or in distress on land or inland waterways, some ground search teams also employ search and rescue dogs. Urban search and rescue, also referred to as Heavy Urban Search and Rescue, is the location and rescue of persons from collapsed buildings or other urban and industrial entrapments. Due to the nature of the work, most teams are multi-disciplinary and include personnel from police, fire. While earthquakes have traditionally been the cause of US&R operations, terrorist attacks, combat search and rescue is search and rescue operations that are carried out during war that are within or near combat zones. Air-sea rescue refers to the use of aircraft and surface vessels, to search for. This treaty contains the definition of high seas, at Article 1, International Search and Rescue Advisory Group is a UN organization that promotes the exchange of information between national urban search and rescue organizations
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Canadian Forces CH-149 Cormorant helicopter hoists a man from a
Canadian Coast Guard cutter
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A SAR cruiser of the
German Maritime Search and Rescue Service
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Rescue rope training
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Search and Rescue students give the "I am all right" signal to let the SAR instructors know that they are ready for further instructions at the pool on board
Naval Station San Diego.
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Downtown Baltimore
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It consists of five neighborhoods, Westside, Mount Vernon, City Centre, Inner Harbor, and Camden Yards. In 1904, downtown Baltimore was almost destroyed by a fire with damages estimated at $150 million. Since the City of Baltimore was chartered in 1796, this downtown nucleus has been the point of business in the Baltimore metropolitan area. It has also become a heavily populated neighborhood with over 37,000 residents and new condominiums. City Center is the financial district in Baltimore that has increasingly shifted eastward. Hundreds of businesses are found here, and it remains the center of life in Baltimore and it includes historic Charles Street as well as significant avenues of commercial and cultural activity along Pratt Street, east to west, and St. Paul Street-Calvert Street, north to south. The Inner Harbor is the commercial and tourist destination in Baltimore. The Inner Harbor features a number of restaurants, hotels, retail areas. It was named by National Geographic as one of the best summer trips in 2012, Westside Baltimore is the western portion of downtown Baltimore that includes Market Center and many of the newest developments in downtown Baltimore, including the Baltimore Convention Center. It is also home to the site of the Superblock project that will include hundreds of condos and apartments as well as a variety of retail and commercial space. The Westside is also home to performing arts centers, including the Hippodrome Theatre, 1st Mariner Arena. G. Krug & Son Ironworks and Museum, in its location, is the oldest continually operating blacksmith shop in the United States as well as a museum. The former home of famed American writer Edgar Allan Poe is located at the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Mount Vernon features the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Lyric Opera House. The world-renowned Peabody Institute is also located in Mount Vernon adjacent to the Walters Art Museum, to the very north is Penn Station, which offers Amtrak service to several U. S. major cities as well as MARC service to Washington, D. C. S. Downtown Baltimore also contains Camden Yards, which includes the home of the Baltimore Orioles, Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Nearby are the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards, Geppis Entertainment Museum,2016 Baltimore shooting LiveBaltimore. com Downtown Living Baltimore Downtown Baltimore Retail Assessment
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Looking West on Fayette Street towards Downtown
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Charles Street headquarters of the Partnership for Downtown Baltimore
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Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor
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The Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor is the highest decoration for bravery exhibited by public safety officers in the United States, comparable to the militarys Medal of Honor. This award was superseded to its current form with the enactment of the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Act of 2001. It is still awarded and presented by the President of the United States, the medal can still be awarded posthumously. The central disc bears the obverse of the Great Seal of the United States, the reverse bears the legend FOR EXTRAORDINARY VALOR ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY, with the name of the recipient engraved at the center. The medal is suspended on a disc bearing a letter V surrounded by a wreath of laurels, which is in turn suspended on a neck ribbon, blue with white and red edge stripes. When the ribbon alone is worn, it carries a gold gilt disc bearing a letter V surrounded by a wreath of laurels. There is also a lapel pin, which is the miniature of the medal without suspension, awards and decorations of the United States government Department of Justice page on Medal of Valor
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Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor
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Eulogy
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A eulogy is a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially one who recently died or retired or as a term of endearment. Eulogies may be given as part of funeral services and they take place in a funeral home during or after a wake. However, some denominations either discourage or do not permit eulogies at services to maintain respect for traditions, eulogies can also praise people who are still alive. This normally takes place on occasions like birthdays, office parties, retirement celebrations. Catholic priests are prohibited by the rubrics of the Mass from presenting a eulogy for the deceased in place of a homily during a funeral Mass, the modern use of the word eulogy was first documented in the 15th century and came from the Medieval Latin term eulogium. Eulogium at that time has turned into the shorter eulogy of today. Eulogies are usually delivered by a member or a close family friend in the case of a dead person. For a living eulogy given in such cases as a retirement, on occasions, eulogies are given to those who are severely ill or elderly in order to express words of love and gratitude before they die. Eulogies are not limited to people, however, places or things can also be given eulogies. A successful eulogy may provide comfort or inspiration, as well as establishing a connection to the person whom the eulogy is in behalf of, the following section will explore some well-known eulogies that have done just that. President Reagan’s eulogy for the Challenger space shuttle crew, “I know it is hard to understand, it’s all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It’s all part of taking a chance and expanding man’s horizons, the future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted, it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we’ll continue to follow them. ”Charles Spencer’s eulogy for Princess Diana, “Diana was the essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. ”Jawaharlal Nehru’s eulogy for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. A great disaster is a symbol to us to all the big things of life and forget the small things. Some of them are meant to be a biography of the person’s life. The short biography is a retelling of what the individual went through in his life. This can be done to highlight major points in the deceased’s life, another version is by telling a more personal view on what the individual did. It entails retelling memories that are shared between the storyteller and the deceased, memories, impressions, and experiences are all things that can be included in a retelling of the personal eulogy
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George W. Bush delivers a eulogy at
Ronald Reagan 's
state funeral, June 2004
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Balthazar Getty
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Paul Balthazar Getty is an American actor, member of the band Ringside, the producer-half of rap duo The Wow, and a member of the Getty family. Paul Balthazar Getty was born in Tarzana, Los Angeles, and his great-grandfather was J. Paul Getty, founder of Getty Oil, and at one time one of the richest men in the world. His grandfather was John Paul Getty, Jr. his father was John Paul Getty III and his mother, Gisela, is a German-born professional photographer and documentary filmmaker. He has a maternal half-sister, Anna, Getty began his acting career at age 14 in 1989. He auditioned for the role in the movie Lord of the Flies after being spotted by a casting director, Robin Joy Allan. Getty guest-starred on the television series Charmed as Richard Montana, a male witch romantically linked with Paige Matthews and he appeared in the fifth season of the television show Alias as Agent Thomas Grace. He starred, alongside Alias costar Ron Rifkin, in the ABC prime time drama Brothers & Sisters, Getty played the role of Thomas Tommy Walker, third-born of the five Walker siblings. In late 2008, media reports indicated Gettys contract as a series regular in Brothers & Sisters would not be renewed due, in part, to budgetary. In the Season 4 premiere, Getty was still listed in the principal cast, Getty made his return to the series in the sixth episode of Season 4. Although he no longer appeared in episode, he continued to make appearances on the show until its cancellation. In 2000, Getty married fashion designer Rosetta Millington and they have three daughters, Grace, Violet, and June Catherine, and a son, Cassius Paul. He had an affair with English actress Sienna Miller but eventually returned to his wife. Getty is on the board of directors for The Lunchbox Fund, Balthazar Getty at the Internet Movie Database Balthazar Getty at AllMovie
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Balthazar Getty as
Thomas Grace from
Alias
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Tim Guinee
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Timothy S. Tim Guinee is an American stage, television, and feature film actor. Guinee, who has two brothers and two sisters, was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Illinois and Texas and he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Texas before he founded a theater group in Texas. Later he moved to New York in order to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, following this study, he attended the North Carolina School of Arts in Winston-Salem, where he graduated and had his film debut. He met his wife, Daisy Foote, at the production of Hallmark Hall of Fame, Daisy is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize winner Horton Foote, who adapted Lily Dale for the film himself. Guinee has participated in numerous productions since then, and may be best known through his role as the lead in Sweet Land, in 2005, he starred as record producer Sam Phillips in the Golden Globe winning miniseries Elvis. Guinee stars as Ben Matheson in Revolution and he was a cast regular in AMCs Hell on Wheels, playing railroad entrepreneur Collis Huntington. A. Paul Turner Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles The West Wing Wiseguy Without a Trace Blue Bloods Gore Vidals Lincoln Mission of the Shark, The Saga of the U. S. S
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Tim Guinee
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Kevin Chapman
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He also portrayed Detective Lionel Fusco on the CBS crime drama Person of Interest. Prior to acting, he had worked as a doorman and a stand-up comedian, while working at the Boston Office of Cultural Affairs, Chapman was discovered by the late director, Ted Demme, and was cast as Mickey Pat in Monument Ave. Other notable film roles of his include The Cider House Rules,21 Grams, In Good Company, an Italian mobster in Boondock Saints, Chapman starred as Irish Mob boss, Freddie Cork, for three seasons in the Showtime original series Brotherhood. Chapman played a first responder assisting Jack Bauer in season 1 episode 24 of the TV series 24 and Kevin Mitchell in season 3 of 24. in 2006, Chapman appeared as an officer in the episode Lessons Learned of Criminal Minds. In 2010, he played Bunny in Tony Scotts action film Unstoppable and he also was a guest star in the series Lost. He appears in the film Bad Country, directed by Chris Brinker and he is a Hingham, Massachusetts native and, as of 2013, currently lives there with his wife and two children. From 2011 to 2016, he portrayed Detective Lionel Fusco on the CBS show Person of Interest, Kevin Chapman at the Internet Movie Database Kevin Chapman on Twitter
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Kevin Chapman on May 1, 2012
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Jay Hernandez
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Javier Manuel Jay Hernandez, Jr. is an American actor. After making his debut in NBCs Hang Time, Hernandez made his film debut opposite Kirsten Dunst in the romantic drama Crazy/Beautiful. He followed that up with several major Hollywood films like Torque, Ladder 49 and Friday Night Lights, Hostel, World Trade Center, Lakeview Terrace Takers and Suicide Squad. Hernandez was born February 20,1978 in Montebello, California, the son of Isis, a secretary and accountant and he has a younger sister, Amelia, and two older brothers, Michael and Gabriel. He met his wife, actress Daniella Deutscher, when he was 14 years old and he attended Don Bosco Technical Institute in Rosemead, California, but transferred to Schurr High School in Montebello his senior year. While riding an elevator in a rise in Los Angeles. He enrolled Hernandez into acting school and sent his pictures to casting agents, from 1998 to 2000 he played Antonio Lopez on the NBC series Hang Time. Hernandez subsequently hit success with his role opposite Kirsten Dunst in Crazy/Beautiful and he has since appeared in several major Hollywood films, including playing the lead roles in Carlitos Way, Rise to Power, the 2005 horror film Hostel and World Trade Center. Hernandez appeared in the action/crime film Takers, which was released in August 2010, Hernandez appeared in the 2005 crime prequel Carlitos Way, Rise to Power, playing Carlito Brigante, the role originated by Al Pacino in the original 1993 film Carlitos Way. Hernandez portrayed Paxton in Eli Roths Hostel and its 2007 sequel, Hostel, in 2015, he appeared in Max as a sergeant in the United States military assigned with the titular rescue dog, which was traumatized by his previous handlers death. In 2016, he starred as metahuman ex-gangster El Diablo in the superhero film Suicide Squad, in 2006, Hernandez married his former Hang Time co-star Daniella Deutscher. Jay Hernandez at the Internet Movie Database Jay Hernandez at AllMovie
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Jay Hernandez at
San Diego Comic-Con 2015
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Kevin Daniels
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Kevin Dwight Daniels Jr. known as Kevin Daniels, is an American actor who started his career with a supporting role in the 1998 film Twelfth Night, or What You Will by director Nicholas Hytner. He has since participated in more than 20 productions and he is best known for playing Don Miller, a firefighter/EMT for the Baltimore city fire department in the movie Ladder 49 and the USA show Sirens where he played Hank St. Clare, a Chicago EMT. He is starring in the 2012 Broadway play Magic/Bird playing the role of Magic Johnson. Daniels attended the Juilliard School as a member of the Drama Divisions Group 27, Kevin Daniels at the Internet Movie Database
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Kevin Daniels, with
Sirens Co-Stars
Michael Mosley,
Jessica McNamee and
Kevin Bigley at the 2015
Television Critics Association ’s Press Tour
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Robbie Robertson
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Jaime Royal Robbie Robertson, OC, is a Canadian musician, songwriter, film composer, producer, actor, and author. Robertson is best known for his work as lead guitarist and primary songwriter for The Band and his work with The Band was instrumental in creating the Americana music genre. He is ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest guitarists. As a songwriter, Robertson is credited for writing The Weight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Up on Cripple Creek, Broken Arrow, Somewhere Down the Crazy River, and many others. Robertson has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, as a film soundtrack producer and composer, Robertson is best known for his numerous collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. His working relationship with Scorsese began with the influential rockumentary film The Last Waltz and he has also worked on many other soundtracks for film and television. Robertson was born in Toronto, an only child and his mother, Rosemarie Dolly Myke Chrysler, was a Mohawk raised on the Six Nations Reserve southwest of Toronto, Ontario. In her early life as an orphan, Chrysler lived with an aunt in Toronto. Robertsons biological father was Alexander David Klegerman, a Jewish professional gambler, Klegerman was killed in a hit-and-run accident as he was changing a tire on the Queen Elizabeth Way. Robertsons mother married James Patrick Robertson, a co-worker at the jewelry plating factory, Robertson earned his nickname from teachers and students at school, who started calling him Robbie in reference to his last name. As a child, Robertsons mother would travel with her son to the Six Nations Reserve to visit her family. These two experiences would impact Robertsons view of Americana, influencing The Band song Life is a Carnival and the movie Carny, Robertson began playing in bands in 1957 with his friend Pete Thumper Traynor, who would later found Traynor Amplifiers. Traynor customized Robertsons guitar for The Robots, fitting it with antennae, after Robbie and The Robots, Robertson played with Little Caesar and the Consuls, and with the Traynor-led combo The Suedes, which featured Scott Cushnie on piano. Robertson became a fan of the Arkansas-based rockabilly group Ronnie Hawkins, Hawkins took a liking to Robertson and would have him run errands for the Hawks. Hawkins hired pianist Scott Cushnie away from The Suedes, and took him on tour with Ronnie Hawkins, when The Hawks bass player left the group, Cushnie recommended that Hawkins hire Robertson to replace him on bass. Hawkins invited Robertson to come to Arkansas, and then flew to the UK to perform on television there, meanwhile, Robertson spent his living allowance on records and practiced intensively each day. Upon returning, Hawkins was amazed at Robertsons progress and hired him to play bass, Cushnie left the band a few months after joining them, and Robertson soon switched over from bass to playing lead guitar for The Hawks. Robertson soon developed into a guitar virtuoso, Levon Helm was already a member of the Hawks and soon became close friends with Robertson
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Robertson performing on stage at the
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Robbie Robertson's star on Canada's Walk of Fame
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Bonnie Raitt
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Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter, musician, and activist. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk, in 1989, after several years of critical acclaim but little commercial success, she had a major hit with the album Nick of Time. Raitt has received 10 Grammy Awards and she is listed as number 50 in Rolling Stones list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and number 89 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Raitt was born in Burbank, California and she is the daughter of the Broadway musical star John Raitt and his first wife, the pianist Marjorie Haydock, and was raised in the Quaker tradition. She began playing guitar at Camp Regis-Apple Jack in Paul Smiths, NY, later she gained notice for her bottleneck-style guitar playing. Raitt says she played a little at school and at camp, Camp Regis-Applejack, Raitt is of Scottish ancestry, with her ancestors being those who constructed Rait Castle near Nairn. After graduating from Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1967 Raitt entered Radcliffe College, majoring in social relations and she said her plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism. Raitt became friends with blues promoter Dick Waterman, during her second year of college Raitt took a semester off and moved to Philadelphia with Waterman and other local musicians. Raitt says it was an opportunity that changed everything, in the fall of 1970, while opening for Mississippi Fred McDowell at the Gaslight Cafe in New York, she was seen by a reporter from Newsweek, who began to spread the word about her performance. Scouts from major companies were soon attending her shows to watch her play. She eventually accepted an offer from Warner Bros. which soon released her album, Bonnie Raitt. While admired by those who saw her perform, and respected by her peers and her critical stature continued to grow but record sales remained modest. Her second album, Give It Up, was released in 1972 to universal acclaim, though many still regard it as her best work. 1973s Takin My Time was also met critical acclaim. Raitt was beginning to receive press coverage, including a 1975 cover story for Rolling Stone. By now, Raitt was already experimenting with different producers and different styles, in 1976, Raitt made an appearance on Warren Zevons eponymous album with his friend Jackson Browne and Fleetwood Macs Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. 1977s Sweet Forgiveness album gave Raitt her first commercial breakthrough when it yielded a hit single in her remake of Runaway, recast as a heavy rhythm and blues recording based on a rhythmic groove inspired by Al Green, Raitts version of Runaway was disparaged by many critics. However, the commercial success prompted a bidding war for Raitt between Warner Bros. and Columbia Records
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Bonnie Raitt performing in 2007
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Raitt performing at the
Berkeley Community Theater, 1976–1977
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Roger Ebert
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Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films. They created and trademarked the phrase Two Thumbs Up, used when both hosts gave the film a positive review. After Siskel died in 1999, Ebert continued hosting the show with various co-hosts and then, starting in 2000, Ebert lived with cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands from 2002. This required treatments necessitating the removal of his jaw, which cost him the ability to speak or eat normally. His ability to write remained unimpaired, however, and he continued to publish frequently both online and in print until his death on April 4,2013. Roger Joseph Ebert was born in Urbana, Illinois, the child of Annabel, a bookkeeper, and Walter Harry Ebert. He was raised Roman Catholic, attending St. Marys elementary school and his paternal grandparents were German immigrants and his maternal ancestry was Irish and Dutch. In his senior year, he was president and editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper. In 1958, he won the Illinois High School Association state speech championship in radio speaking, regarding his early influences in film criticism, Ebert wrote in the 1998 parody collection Mad About the Movies, I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine. Mads parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin – of the way a movie might look original on the outside, I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe. Pauline Kael lost it at the movies, I lost it at Mad magazine, Ebert began taking classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an early-entrance student, completing his high-school courses while also taking his first university class. After graduating from Urbana High School in 1960, Ebert then attended and received his degree in 1964. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, One of the first movie reviews he ever wrote was a review of La Dolce Vita, published in The Daily Illini in October 1961. Ebert spent a semester as a student in the department of English there before attending the University of Cape Town on a Rotary fellowship for a year. He returned from Cape Town to his studies at Illinois for two more semesters and then, after being accepted as a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. Instead Kogan referred Ebert to the city editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Hoge and he attended doctoral classes at the University of Chicago while working as a general reporter at the Sun-Times for a year
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Ebert giving an interview for
Sound Opinions in 2006
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Roger Ebert (right) with
Russ Meyer in 1970.
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Ebert and his wife Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert (left) giving the thumbs up to
Nancy Kwan (right) at the
Hawaii International Film Festival on October 20, 2010
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Ebert (right) at the
Conference on World Affairs in September 2002, shortly after his cancer diagnosis
26.
Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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Metacritic
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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products, music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged, Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source, a color of Green, Yellow or Red summarizes the critics recommendations and therefore the general appeal of the product to reviewers and, to a lesser extent, the public. It is regarded as the game industrys foremost review aggregator. Metacritics scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critics fame, stature, and volume of reviews. Metacritic was launched in July 1999 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts, and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold Metacritic to CNET in 2005, CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal wrote in September 2004, Mr. Doyle,36, is now a product manager at CNET. Speaking of video games, Doyle said, A site like ours helps people cut through. unobjective promotional language and he added that the review process was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provided reviews in isolation. In August 2010, the appearance was revamped, reaction from users was overwhelmingly negative. Certain publications are given more significance because of their stature, games Editor Marc Doyle was interviewed by Keith Stuart of The Guardian to get a look behind the metascoring process. Stuart wrote, the phenomenon, namely Metacritic and GameRankings, have become an enormously important element of online games journalism over the past few years. The ranging of metascores is, Metacritic is regarded as the foremost online review site for the video game industry. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal has written that Metacritic influence the sales of games and he explains its influence as coming from the higher cost of buying video games than music or movie tickets. Many executives say that low scores can hurt the sales potential. He claimed that a number of businesses and financial analysts use Metacritic as an early indicator of a games potential sales and, by extension. In 2004, Jason Hall of Warner Bros. began including quality metrics in contracts with partners licensing its movies for games, if a product does not at least achieve a specific score, some deals require the publisher to pay higher royalties. In 2008, Microsoft began using Metacritic averages to de-list underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games and these are the top 10 individual games with the highest scores on the site as of 2 April 2017
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Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse fire
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The Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire began on December 3,1999, in an abandoned building at 266 Franklin Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. The fire was started some time between 4, 30–5,45 pm by two homeless people who were squatting in the building and had knocked over a candle. They left the scene without reporting the fire, the 6-story building, previously used as a meat cold storage facility, had no windows above the ground floor and no fire detection or suppression systems. The fire, which started on the story, burned undetected for 30–90 minutes. The structure was located five blocks east of the Worcester central business district, near Union Station, an off-duty police officer first called in the fire at 6,13 pm after noticing grey/white smoke coming from the roof of the building. At around the time an off-duty firefighter from neighbouring Auburn passed the building on I-290. He told them to inform the Fire Chief this is going to be a multiple-alarm fire. Firefighters were unfamiliar with the layout of the building, and most of the floors inside – each up to 15,000 square feet – were divided into a labyrinth of connecting meat lockers. The walls and many ceilings were covered with insulating layers of cork, tar, expanded polystyrene foam, There were no fire walls or fire doors, and only a single staircase extended from the basement to the roof. Conditions inside the building deteriorated rapidly, Worcester Fire Department District Chief Michael McNamee said, There was a light smoke condition in the upper levels of the building to the point we didnt even have our face pieces on. Within four seconds it went from that condition to the building being filled completely with black, hot, the layout of the building and the absence of windows left firefighters without a secondary escape route and prevented ladder and rescue operations. Six firefighters were still unaccounted for in the building when the floors collapsed to the second story level. They were the citys first firefighting deaths in 36 years, the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. building was constructed in 1906 and covered an entire city block on Franklin Street. The original structure measured 88 feet by 88 feet, and stood 80 feet high, the warehouse was built to store western dressed beef which was slaughtered in Chicago and could be shipped in refrigerated rail cars to the east at a lower cost than shipping livestock. The interior consisted of six levels and a basement. The warehouse was served by a siding to the rear, operated by the Boston. To insulate the building, it was constructed with 18-inch thick brick walls and had no windows above the first floor, the interior walls were covered with layers of cork impregnated with tar, polystyrene foam and polyurethane to improve insulation. The insulating layers were up to 18-inches thick, two elevator shafts ran alongside the stairwell
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Memorial to the fallen firefighters outside Franklin Street Fire Station, erected on the site of the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. building
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AllMovie
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AllMovie is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. As of 2013, AllMovie. com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by All Media Network, AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites, the AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie. com website and it was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, Macrovision acquired AMG for a reported $72 million, the AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in August 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. The buyers also include the founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. All Media Network offices are located in San Francisco, California, AllMusic AllGame SideReel All Media Network Official website
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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Box Office Mojo
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Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, founded in 1999. In 2008, Box Office Mojo was bought by the Internet Movie Database, the website is widely used within the film industry as a source of data. From 2002–11, Box Office Mojo had forums popular with film fans, on October 10,2014, the websites URL was redirected to Amazons IMDB. com website for one day, but the website returned the following day without explanation. Brandon Gray began the site in 1999, in 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury and grew the site to nearly two million readers. In July 2008, the company was purchased by Amazon. com through its subsidiary, Box Office Mojo had forums with more than 16,500 registered users. On November 2,2011 the forums were closed along with any user accounts. Tracking is still very closely to the day by day, actual tabulation of distributors. The site also creates an overall chart, combining all box office returns from around the world, excluding the United States. The overall weekend chart currently tracks the Top 40 films as well as approximately fifty additional films with no ranking, the site additionally has yearly and all time features for its various territories. Box Office Mojo was as of June 2009 reporting limited data from overseas and is work on improvements, most of the international charts have not been updated since November 2014. On October 10,2014, all traffic to Box Office Mojo was redirected to IMDbs box office page, queries about the closure to IMDb and Amazon representatives were met with no response. Neither Brandon Gray, who founded the website but left several years ago after its sale to Amazon, nor Ray Subers, on Ray Subers Twitter account, he revealed the websites return, but also stated he would not answer any questions pertaining to closure. Subers subsequently left the website seven months later
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My Dog Skip (film)
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My Dog Skip is a 2000 family drama film, directed by Jay Russell and starring Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, and Kevin Bacon with narration by Harry Connick, Jr. My Dog Skip was released on March 3,2000, by Warner Bros. receiving generally positive reviews from critics, the film earned $35,547,761 on a $4.5 million budget. Willie Morris as an adult is looking back on his childhood in the early 1940s and how it was colored by his beloved dog. His one companion is a man who lives next door, Dink Jenkins. However, when Dink is drafted to go to war, Willies mother decides to buy him a dog, against his fathers wishes, Willie and Skipper become firm friends very quickly. However, Willie gets bullied at school by Big Boy Wilkinson, Henjie Henick, the other boys demand he play ball in order to win back his belongings. Skipper leaps in to help him and that same day, the three boys talk Willie into spending the night in a graveyard, where they claim a witch is buried. If he stays there, he gets to join their gang and also keep the ball Dink Jenkins signed for them, Willie stays there for a number of hours, until he hears two moonshiners who are loading crates into a crypt. Skipper jumps on Millard, one the moonshiners, until the one, Junior. Willie uses a slingshot to hit Junior in the nose with an acorn and they are soon captured by Junior. He tells Willie not to move before sunrise or he will kill Skipper, the three boys return in the morning and accept Willie into their group for spending the night in the graveyard. The narrator then goes on to various changes in his life. Skipper, having always been a dog, is known by everyone in the town, including black people. Skipper leads Willie through the best parts of his life, his boyhood days, thanks to Skipper, Willie now has three friends, and a girlfriend, Rivers Ginny Grey. Skipper is there for him when Dink gets home, shell-shocked, however, when Willie’s first ball game comes along, Skipper and Willie have their first falling out. Dink promised to come along but does not bother, since the war he has found competitions do not matter to him anymore, and Willie is so upset by this that his game is ruined. Skipper, wanting to cheer him up, runs onto the field and sits wagging her tail, becoming increasingly frustrated, Willie hits her across the muzzle and she runs away. After the game, a devastated and tearful Willie is unable to find his dog, unbeknownst to him, Skipper had returned to the crypt, and been accidentally shut in the grave where moonshine alcohol was being stored
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Tuck Everlasting (2002 film)
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Tuck Everlasting is a 2002 fantasy family romantic drama film based on the childrens book of the same title by Natalie Babbitt published in 1975. The Walt Disney Pictures release was directed by Jay Russell, 15-year-old Winnie Foster is from an upper-class family in the town of Treegap, Maryland and wants to make her own choices in life. After being told that she is going to a boarding school and she is kidnapped by his older brother Miles and brought back to the Tucks home where they tell her they will return her as soon as they can trust her. She becomes enamored of their slow and simple way of life and she learns that the Tucks cannot age or be injured due to drinking water from a magic spring around a hundred years ago and that they kidnapped her to hide the secret. They tell her that living forever is more painful than it sounds, a man in a yellow suit befriends the Fosters while Winnie is gone. He spies on the Tucks and he desires the spring to sell the water and he makes a deal to save Winnie and get the forest. He goes to the Tucks and orders them to reveal where the spring is and he calls their bluff by shooting Jesse and exposing his youth, but in return Jesses mother, Mae, kills him with the rear end of a rifle. The constable sees the attack and arrests Mae for killing the man and she and Angus are sentenced to be hanged for kidnapping Winnie and murdering the man. After being returned home, Winnie is woken by Jesse who begs her to him free his parents. The family fears that if Mae and Angus are in fact hanged the next day, they wont die, Winnie helps Jesse and Miles to break the Tucks out of jail and goodbye to them. Jesse, who has fallen in love with Winnie, asks her to join them, Jesse tells Winnie to drink from the spring so she could live forever and never age, then he will come back for her when everything is safe. He leaves promising to love her until the day he dies, after the Tucks depart, Winnie chooses not to drink the water. She would rather die after living a life, than be immortal. 85 years later, Jesse returns to a much changed Treegap that has modernized with a McDonalds and he goes into the woods and at the base of the great tree he finds Winnies headstone marking the site of where the spring once stood. The stone reads that Winnie became a wife and mother before passing away at 100 years of age, Jesse sits at her grave, smiling through his tears and remembering her
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The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
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The Water Horse, Legend of the Deep is a 2007 family fantasy drama film directed by Jay Russell and written by Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on Dick King-Smiths childrens novel The Water Horse. It stars Alex Etel as a boy who discovers a mysterious egg and cares for what hatches out of it. The film also stars Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin and David Morrissey, the film was produced by Revolution Studios and Walden Media, in collaboration with Beacon Pictures, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. The Water Horse was released in the United States on December 25,2007, in present-day Scotland, an American tourist couple go into a bar where they meet an old man who tells them a story about the Loch Ness Monster. Later, they are joined by Lewis Mowbray, who comes to work as a handyman in the manor, one day, while collecting seashells, he discovers what appears to be a large mysterious egg in the sand, which he leaves it in his fathers shed. When he returns later, an unknown creature hatches that becomes the fabled Loch Ness Monster, Angus keeps the creature a secret, but eventually tells his sister and Lewis about it. Lewis explains to Angus that it is a genderless Water Horse that lays one egg, then dies before it hatches. The next day troops of the 12th Medium Regiment Royal Artillery arrive at the house, commanded by Captain Thomas Hamilton — a friend of Lord Killin, who is serving with the Royal Air Force. An artillery battery is set up near the lake as defence against possible attacking or hiding German U-boats, an anti-submarine net is also raised at the mouth of the lake to prevent the possible entrance of German U-boats into the lake. One night, when the men are invited into the house for dinner, Crusoe breaks free, unnoticed, Churchill is blamed for the mess. Meanwhile, Crusoe spends the night in a fountain feeding on the fish, Captain Hamilton proclaims Lewis to be a bad influence, and persuades Angus mother to allow him to teach Angus some discipline and make a soldier out of him. However, after a few days, Angus escapes and returns to the lake, after some time, it begins to dive underwater, coming to the surface from time to time for breathing. Angus, having aquaphobia, protests diving, but later enjoys himself, Angus interrupts to save Crusoe from injury or death, but enrages Hamilton and irates his mother in the process. Angus is slapped in the face, yelled at and confined to his room for a month as punishment for acting out for his apparent imaginary companion and blowing up the cannon, interrupting the demo. Two old fishermen who previously saw Crusoe, attempt to take a photo of the creature for fame, when they realize that they wont be able to photograph the real thing thanks to Victoria, they decide to create an imitation. The photo piques the interest of a few soldiers, who venture out on the lake at night to hunt it, kirstie, Anguss sister lets him sneak out of his room and to the lake. When Angus calls for Crusoe, he rises but is still in shock from the bombardment, out of fear and rage. Angus blames this on Lewis for letting him free, Churchill, having caught Crusoes scent at the shore where he reconciled with Angus, alerts the soldiers of its presence, Crusoe surfaces, only this time he has the advantage in size
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Ladder 49
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The movie is a celebration of the firefighting profession and the lifestyle associated with it. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix and John Travolta, after graduating from the fire academy, Jack is sent to work on Baltimore City Fire Department Engine Company 33, in the busiest firehouse in the city. Quartered with Engine 33 is Ladder Company 49, on Engine 33, Jack learns the ropes of firefighting. He quickly becomes friends with his fellow firefighters, including Kennedy. Jacks first fire takes place at a burning vacant rowhouse, Engine 33 and Ladder 49 respond and are the first companies on the scene. Jack and Mike enter the building with a line and tackle the blaze. They quickly and triumphantly extinguish it, Jack decides, although it is more dangerous, to take his friends position as a truckie, a search and rescue member on Ladder 49 by transferring to the Truck. He finds the work rewarding, but his wife initially worries about his safety, however, she eventually accepts his new role and even talks him out of taking an administrative position that Mike, who has now become a Deputy Chief, offers him. One Christmas Eve, Jack and the members of Engine 33, Jack is able to rescue a young girl trapped in an engulfed apartment, but is briefly trapped himself before being rescued by a fellow Firefighter from Ladder 49, Leonard Lenny Richter. Both men receive the departments Medal of Valor for their actions, however, upon reaching that room he sees that the only exit is cut off by raging flames and, out of air and with the heat intensifying, Jack realizes his situation is hopeless. He radios Mike to pull his men back, so no one else will be hurt while trying to rescue him, Mike reluctantly agrees, and Jack accepts his fate to die in the fire, devastating Mike. At Jacks funeral, Mike delivers a eulogy in celebration of Jacks life. Jacks body is carried to his resting place, with full honors. The film ends with flashbacks of Jack and his fellow firefighters going to fires, robbie Robertson contributed the films theme song, Shine Your Light. He also composed an adagio for the end credits, the film also features Love Sneakin Up On You by Bonnie Raitt, among others. Ladder 49 grossed $74,463,263 at the US box office and $102,332,848 worldwide and it received a rating of 3
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